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...soon as Summers was out, speculation about his likely successor began. The conventional wisdom in the election of a Harvard president is that the Corporation nearly always elects someone who is the polar opposite of the most recent occupant of the office. In 1701, in seeking to find a successor to the aggressively pious Increase Mather, Class of 1656, the Corporation finally ended up in 1708 with John Leverett, Class of 1680, Harvard’s first lay president and its first lawyer. Cotton Mather, Class of 1678, who had hoped to succeed his father, was so furious at this...

Author: By Peter J. Gomes | Title: Don’t Rush, Get It Right | 2/2/2007 | See Source »

This has led to the speculation that a consensus-building female scientist is the ideal candidate for the job, although no one resembling that description has yet surfaced on the many circulating lists of possible candidates. In fact, old conventional wisdom has it that if your name appears on a list it is almost certain that you will not get the job. In fact, it has been suggested that “the list” merely indicates that a constituency has been heard from, not that the person is a viable candidate. In this election cycle, the news...

Author: By Peter J. Gomes | Title: Don’t Rush, Get It Right | 2/2/2007 | See Source »

...without democracy, we will not get the trust and confidence [of investors] to develop the country. If you look at the development of civilizations, the first curve of civilization is military, or the prestige game. The second curve is industrialization, or the wealth game. The current curve is the wisdom game-information technology. We have to compete in the wisdom game; we should not be competing in the prestige game. But [the junta] wants to bring the country backward. That is not good. You should take the country forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "I'm Calling It Quits" | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...Eurocentric" view of the world, but most leaders I talked to thought that European public opinion was still woefully ignorant of the ways in which the old Continent's influence may shrink in the coming years. That said, I wanted someone to challenge the conventional wisdom, and argue that low birthrates are compatible with long-term prosperity and happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Tell It On The Mountain | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...these misguided souls, some words of wisdom: knowing the Wikipedia entry on Goethe by heart and listening to terrible techno do not an international student make. Take off that Union Jack belt buckle. You’re from Illinois...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: To Harvard’s Philistines | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

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